Mike Porcellana

Greetings all. I'm studying for my MCSE in Server 2003, and am also a
Technet Plus subscriber. My machine at home is custom-built, and believe
that it has plenty of horsepower; Intel Core i7 920 CPU, 6 gigs of DDR3-1333
RAM, an X58 Gigabyte board, a pair of 150GB RaptorX drives, and a 500GB and a
1.5TB SATA drives. Here's what I'd like to setup.

I want to create 2 virtual machines: one running Server 2003 SP1, and one
running XP Pro. In and of itself, this isn't a problem; I can do this easily
under Virtual PC 2007, I'd ASSUME I can do this also under Virtual Server.
But, the issue is this: I need to have both these machines "see" and speak
to each other in the same domain. In the MCSE literature, they're using the
Microsoft standard contoso.com domain (which is used in all MS Press books).
I guess my main issue/question is how to configure the networking options
BOTH in the Virtual PC program, AND once each VM is running, in each
machine's network properties settings. I don't think it's critical that
either machine can "see" the outside world (aka the Internet); I feel that
would be a bonus.

So folks, do any of you have experience at this? Any and all help is
immensely appreciated!